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 THE PERSIAN WAR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In the first stage of the war between Persia and Greece the Persian armies were led by king Darius I (550-486 B. The Persians lost to the Athenians and their Greek allies.
In the famous land battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. the Persians were defeated by the Athenians and the Plataeans.
Insofar as Athens had masterminded the naval victory of Salamis, which was the decisive victory in the war, the Athenians could rightly be said to have saved all Greece from Persian domination.
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He served as a general (strategos) in the year 424, was unsuccessful in defending Amphipolis against the Spartan general Brasidas and exiled from Athens.
B. Authors submit a trilogy and a satyr play during the festival; no repertory theater.
B. Career: consolidation of power in Greece; invades and conquers Persia and thus controls the old Persian Empire (Mesopotamia, the Levant, Asia Minor, Egypt) ; reaches northwestern India in his conquests; dies (323 BC) on return trip at Babylon
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 Lecture 7: Classical Greece, 500-323BC
Between 490 and 479 B.C., Greece was invaded by the army and naval fleet of the Persian Empire.
Their final expulsion came in 479 B.C. at the village of Plataea.
By 479 B.C., the Greek forces had all conquered the Persian army and navy.
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 Confucius1, Philosophy, Free Essays @ ChuckIII College Resources
His last couple years of life were probably bitter due to a number of deaths of his close associates.
He died in 479 B.C. at the age of 72.
Confucius was for the most part self-taught, although he was not too proud to learn from people inferior to him.
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 Artist not recorded / Tetradrachm with quadriga on the obverse / 479 B.C.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 95042479   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
This volume collects Harold B. Mattingly's most important essays on the question, and offers them in updated form together with a new introduction and notes, and a concordance of inscriptions.
A preface by Mortimer Chambers helps place the volume amid the decades- long controversy about events in and around Athens, and describes the scientific technique that has proven Mattingly's argument.
Harold B. Mattingly has retired from his position as Professor of ancient history at the University of Leeds.
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 Ancient History
Its three main phases of construction are thought to span c.
Peak of Minoan culture on Isle of Crete—earliest form of written Greek.
610–580 B.C. Lao-tse, Chinese philosopher and founder of Taoism (born c.
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 5th Century Athens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Persians the second time (479 B.C) Spartan led land battle victory against the Persians at
Plataea (479 B.C) view of the battlefield on the distant foothills
Athenian led naval battle victory against the Persians at
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In the spring of 479 B.C. the Spartans under Pausanius marched north and were joined by the Athenian and other Greek contigents.
They took up positions on the foot hills of Mount Cithaeron.
This operation was carried out haphazzardly at night and when dawn broke the Greek army was separated.
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1450 B.C. Linear Script B. Destruciton of Minoan centres.
The naval engagement at Artemesium, battle of Thermopylae [with Leonidas in command], the naval battle of Salamis [under Themistocles] and the destruction of the Acropolis of Athens by the Persians.
479 B.C. Victory of the Greeks at Plataea [under Pausanias and Aristides] and at Mycale [under Leotichides and Xanthippus].
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 Amazon.ca: Books: Greco-Persian Wars: Year of Salamis, 480-479 B C   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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Whether you are reading for pleasure or this is a text for a class you will come away with a better understanding of this military conflict.
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 The Cambridge Ancient History : Persia, Greece, and the Western Mediterranean, C. 525-479 B.C.
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